@Slim02 @Slade968 @Double_Wide

What are you talking about?

@armpitpuncher

NO! But not as costly to add to the motherboard as a brand new HD disc format!

@M3o5nster @Hellhound30x

Not really...its just an extra chip set. What made the PS3 so high was the new Blu-Ray technlogy....which they actually undersold at the time.

The removal of the PS2 compatibility due to cutting back on production cost was a bullshit excuse. Shortly before introducing those models, a report came out about how profitable the PS2 hardware was still to Sony.

Think about it. Even on the digital scale, it didn't stop Sony from making the Vita backwards compatible and they're even adding an internal hardddrive to the new models like the PSPGo did. Now why do you think they didn't do that in the first place?

Because it was more profitable to sell their overpriced memory cards that was mandetory for booting games and that they only manufacture!

@McGregor @Hellhound30x @freedom01

Mine is a PS3 launch model and PS3 super slim. I bought the super slim in the case that I get another YLOD. I refuse to let go of my launch model with all of its backwards compatibility

@Hellhound30x @freedom01

Everyone forgets or likes to pretend like that wasn't the standard going into the generation we're in now.

@Deaho

LOL! I see what you did there

@McGregor @freedom01

Here here!

@McGregor @Double_Wide

I'd put my money on "money grab"

@Arkhalipso @Hellhound30x

They say that can't but I'm saying they simply won't. I think a better analogy would be its for the same reason they removed the PS2 compatibility. Sony still wanted to sell PS2s...hell FIFA '14 just became the last title for it.

@McGregor @Double_Wide

I can't argue with that. You would think with a name like "The Playstation NETWORK", that legacy content would eventually transfer over, right?